My teammates and I were grooming a user story and we had to document certain expectations around that particular icon. I initially typed it in as “context menu (…)” which I learned later on that it wasn’t. And my teammates told me that they just call it the dot-dot-dot menu. Well, that works. But I was curious as to what it’s officially called, so I googled.
– dot dot dot menu – ellipsis button (singular) according to Microsoft documentation guidelines – More according to Apple – more options – others: meatballs, dumplings | |
– burger – hamburger – navigation icon according to Google | |
– kebab – vertical ellipsis button – overflow menu according to Google |
I mentioned I got it wrong about the “context menu”. One of the results I came across had a description for the context menu — Contextual menus aren’t triggered by a consistent UI element. They appear next to where a user taps, and their actions can vary based on the tap target.
Anyways, one image result that turned up summarized those icons quite nicely: